Editing Forgetting (section)

====Free recall and variants====
Free recall is a basic paradigm used to study human memory. In a free recall task, a subject is presented a list of to-be-remembered items, one at a time. For example, an experimenter might read a list of 20 words aloud, presenting a new word to the subject every 4 seconds. At the end of the presentation of the list, the subject is asked to recall the items (e.g., by writing down as many items from the list as possible). It is called a free recall task because the subject is free to recall the items in any order that he or she desires.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Bjork, Robert A. |author2=Woodward, Addison E. |title=Directed forgetting of individual words in free recall. |journal=Journal of Experimental Psychology |volume=99 |pages=22–27 |date=1973 |doi=10.1037/h0034757}}</ref>

=====Prompted (cued) recall=====
Prompted recall is a slight variation of free recall that consists of presenting hints or prompts to increase the likelihood that the behavior will be produced. Usually these prompts are stimuli that were not there during the training period. Thus in order to measure the degree of forgetting, one can see how many prompts the subject misses or the number of prompts required to produce the behavior.<ref name=learningandbehavior>{{cite book|last=Chance|first=Paul|title=Learning and behavior|date=2014|publisher=Jon-David Hague|isbn=978-1-111-83277-3|pages=346–371|edition=Seventh}}</ref>